One of the key figures in German music’s Krautrock renaissance of the 1970s has died. GARY STEEL weeps all over his keyboard.
Beautmuse
Steely Dan – A Love/Hate Relationship
Walter Becker’s death prompts GARY STEEL to examine his curiously topsy-turvy relationship to the music of Steely Dan.
No, You Don’t Like Music
Most people reckon they love music, and that it’s a soundtrack to their lives, but they never actually listen to it.
Harry Styles – Harry Styles (Erskine/Columbia) ALBUM REVIEW
One Erection, did you say? Oh, the guy from One Direction! Old fart GARY STEEL grapples manfully with the debut Harry Styles solo album.
Take That, Audio Snobs!
GARY STEEL goes on the attack against audio snobbery as he details his rock and roll odyssey with Cerwin-Vega loudspeakers.
Picture Power
The Dunedin Sound – Some Disenchanted Evening, Ian Chapman (Bateman) The Shops, Steve Braunias & Peter Black (Luncheon Sausage Books) PICTURE BOOKS ARE not much use to me, really. I’ll walk through an art gallery with eyes bulging, but put the same art in a book, and all I want […]
Harlot For President
Could a prostitute ever make it to the Whitehouse? Estère clearly thinks so. She explains her new song to Gary Steel.
Crowded Release Schedule
Crowded House are to reissue deluxe versions of album catalogue.
Adele – 25 (XL) ALBUM REVIEW
For some unknown reason, my Adele review was never published by the magazine I submitted it to. So, here it is, a little late but hey…
M83 – Junk (Naive) ALBUM REVIEW
French group’s homage to ’80s nostalgia in poor taste.
Liima – ii (4AD) ALBUM REVIEW
Efterklang plus one makes Liima, a band of real-time electronic performers with a sonic joie de vivre worth plugging into.
Beastwars – The Death Of All Things (Destroy/Universal) ALBUM REVIEW
The final Beastwars album is a monster.